THE RED FUNNEL SERVICE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 64, 16 March 1910, Page 2

THE RED FUNNEL SERVICE.

'~_ f i' »; : ' ; i SIE JAB. J4P4- IN AUCKLAND. ~ Sir James MU_, managing director of the Union Steamship Company, arrived in . Auckland this . morning ixeni Sydney, after a visit to the Victorian and New South WaJ.es capitals. Interviewed by a reporter, - Sir James said -there was nothing new to cjuronicle beyond the statement made toy: him in Sydney a week ago, to the, effect, tttat the company iha_ —e_ded to (replace _ wrecked Waflfcare with a vessel of the Marama type, and to iaye her running nest :____me_ ._— Union Company has also purchased the Canadian-Australian mail atoamer Aorangi, aid intends 'holding her as ' a reaerve steamer. The New= Zealand Shipping Company, since laying up the Aorangi last January, has had _d'furt2_er connection with the- EydaeyrVaii-fjiiver service, %n_ -this line will in future be carried on- en_rely by the Union.. pany with its ateanjers, The Union Company is desirous of sec— a con.tract with the GovernTO—it, which will enable _— to place the Vancouver service on a still 'better footing. •'" Qnes—oned in regard to the' proposed new service between Australia and London, via South America, connecting with the ___oa-An_ine railway, at Valpariso, ISii James Mills declined to express any ropi—ton 'on the. eirbjeet, in view of the iaci that no news of the proposition had reached him until hia arrival -' in Auckland this morning. The question of distances, and the possibilities of trade between Australia and New Zealand with Chili, need to-be aerionsly gone into, Sir Jiames Mill* eipl-nied,, tefPTe any 4efini^e opinion could be eijpressied, '